Ximena is a Schell Center Research Fellow and Information Society Project Resident Fellow at Yale Law School, and Lecturer at Yale College. She is a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) candidate at Yale Law School, where she received her LL.M. in 2006. Before coming back to law school for her doctoral studies, Ximena practiced law both in New York and Lima, and was a law professor in Peru, where she earned her law degree and B.A. in Humanities from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Also at Yale, Ximena is a Graduate Fellow at Yale Law School's Solomon Center for Health, Law & Policy, and a Graduate Policy Fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

Ximena researches and writes on issues of institutional corruption, health care policy, and health care innovation, at the intersection of social human rights and institutional development.